Gwen with Garen
How to Synergize Gwen and Garen
based on 803 Gwen with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Garen Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Garen Counter Build
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Core Gwen Items
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Garen
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Garen
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Advice to Understand How Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Gwen Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Gwen perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen is paired with Garen, she sees a measurable drop in her full damage output. This could signal that Garen doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played alongside Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Garen on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Gwen in team fights.
Synergies between Gwen and Garen
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Garen?
There is no top synergy for Gwen that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Garen is a good teammate for Gwen. By locking into the same side as Gwen, he increases their win rate by 2.0% to 50.1%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Gwen and Garen that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Gwen. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Gwen and Garen together, you may not be providing your side enough AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Gwen Garen Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gwen in order to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Gwen and Garen synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Gwen incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Garen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Garen with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Gwen players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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